30 Actors
By: Tom JF
A list of 30 of my favourite screen actors.
BORIS KARLOFF (1887-1969)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Targets (1968)
CONRAD VEIDT (1893-1943)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Casablanca (1942)
HUMPHREY BOGART (1899 – 1957)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
TAKASHI SHIMURA (1905-1982)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Ikiru (1952)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
JOHN WAYNE (1907 – 1979)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Searchers (1956)
Rio Bravo (1959)
ALEC GUINNESS (1914-2000)
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Card (1952)
The Ladykillers (1955)
EDMOND O’BRIEN (1915 – 1985)
White Heat (1949)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
ORSON WELLES (1915 – 1985)
Macbeth (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
A Touch of Evil (1958)
STERLING HAYDEN (1916 – 1986)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Dr Strangelove (1964)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
ROBERT MITCHUM (1917 – 1997)
Out of the Past (1947)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Dead Man (1995)
TOSHIRO MIFUNE (1920 – 1997)
Stray Dog (1949)
Yojimbo (1961)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
LEE MARVIN (1924 – 1987)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
The Big Red One (1980)
KLAUS KINSKI (1926 – 1991)
The Great Silence (1967)
Aguirre – The Wrath of God (1972)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
HARRY DEAN STANTON (b.1926)
Alien (1979)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
FREDDIE JONES (b.1927)
The Elephant Man (1980)
And the Ship the Sailed On (1983)
Dune (1984)
WARREN OATES (1928 – 1982)
Badlands (1973)
Cockfighter (1974)
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
GENE HACKMAN (b.1930)
The French Connection (1971)
Night Moves (1975)
Heist (2001)
MICHAEL CAINE (b.1933)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Get Carter (1971)
Batman Begins (2005)
JACK NICHOLSON (b.1937)
The Last Detail (1968)
The Shining (1980)
About Schmidt (2002)
HARVEY KEITEL (b.1939)
Mean Streets (1973)
Bad Timing (1980)
The Bad Lieutenant (1992)
YAPHET KOTTO (b.1939)
Bone (1972)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Blue Collar (1978)
JOHN HURT (b. 1940)
1984 (1984)
The Hit (1984)
The Proposition (2005)
AL PACINO (b.1940)
The Godfather (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Heat (1995)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (b.1943)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The King of New York (1990)
BEAT TAKESHI (b.1947)
Violent Cop (1989)
Fireworks (1997)
Battle Royale (2000)
JEFF BRIDGES (b.1949)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
True Grit (2010)
BRAD DOURIF (b.1950)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Wise Blood (1979)
The Exorcist III (1990)
BILL MURRAY (b.1950)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Rushmore (1998)
CHOW YUN FAT (b.1955)
City on Fire (1987)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
GARY OLDMAN (b.1958)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Leon (1994)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
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01James Whale
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02Robert Wise
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03Peter Bogdanovich
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04Robert Wiene
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05Paul Leni
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06Michael Curtiz
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07John Huston
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08Howard Hawks
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09John Huston
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10Akira Kurosawa
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11Akira Kurosawa
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12Akira Kurosawa
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13John Ford
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14John Ford
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15Howard Hawks
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16David Lean
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17Ronald Neame
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18Alexander Mackendrick
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19Raoul Walsh
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20Ida Lupino
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21Sam Peckinpah
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22Orson Welles
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23Carol Reed
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24Orson Welles
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25John Huston
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26Stanley Kubrick
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27Robert Altman
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28Jacques Tourneur
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29Charles Laughton
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30Jim Jarmusch
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31Akira Kurosawa
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32Akira Kurosawa
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33Masaki Kobayashi
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34Robert Aldrich
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35John Boorman
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36Samuel Fuller
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37Sergio Corbucci
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38Werner Herzog
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39Werner Herzog
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40Ridley Scott
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41Wim Wenders
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42Alex Cox
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43David Lynch
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44Federico Fellini
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45David Lynch
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46Terrence Malick
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47Monte Hellman
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48Sam Peckinpah
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49William Friedkin
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50Arthur Penn
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51David Mamet
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52Sidney J. Furie
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53Mike Hodges
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54Christopher Nolan
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55Hal Ashby
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56Stanley Kubrick
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57Alexander Payne
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58Martin Scorsese
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59Nicolas Roeg
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60Abel Ferrara
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61Larry Cohen
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62Barry Shear
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63Paul Schrader
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64Michael Radford
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65Stephen Frears
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66John Hillcoat
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67Francis Ford Coppola
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68Sidney Lumet
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69Michael Mann
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70Michael Cimino
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71David Cronenberg
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72Abel Ferrara
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73Takeshi Kitano
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74Takeshi Kitano
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75Kinji Fukasaku
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76Michael Cimino
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77Joel Coen
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78Ethan Coen
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79Miloš Forman
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80John Huston
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81William Peter Blatty
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82Ivan Reitman
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83Harold Ramis
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84Wes Anderson
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85Ringo Lam
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86John Woo
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87Ang Lee
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88Alex Cox
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89Luc Besson
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90Tomas Alfredson